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Meaning of "hootenanny" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HOOTENANNY

Of unknown origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HOOTENANNY

hootenanny  [ˈhuːtəˌnænɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOOTENANNY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hootenanny is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOOTENANNY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hootenanny

Hootenanny is a Scottish word meaning "celebration" and / or "party", most closely associated with Hogmanay—the Scots New Year celebration which, traditionally, is the biggest celebration on the Scottish calendar. With the Scots being one of the biggest groups of settlers in the Appalachian region of North America it is not surprising that hootenanny became an Appalachian colloquialism, although it became used in early 20th-century America as a placeholder name to refer to things whose names were forgotten or unknown. In this usage it was synonymous with thingamajig or whatchamacallit, as in: "Hand me that hootenanny." Hootenanny was also an old country word for "party". Nowadays the word most commonly refers to a folk music party with an open mic, at which different performers are welcome to get up and play in front of an audience. "Hootenanny" was also used by the leadership of early firefighting battalions to describe a "meeting of the minds" of higher ups or various department heads.

Definition of hootenanny in the English dictionary

The definition of hootenanny in the dictionary is an informal performance by folk singers. Other definition of hootenanny is something the name of which is unspecified or forgotten.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOOTENANNY


canny
ˈkænɪ
cranny
ˈkrænɪ
danny
ˈdænɪ
fanny
ˈfænɪ
FANY
ˈfænɪ
grannie
ˈɡrænɪ
granny
ˈɡrænɪ
hootanannie
ˈhuːtəˌnænɪ
hootananny
ˈhuːtəˌnænɪ
hootenannie
ˈhuːtəˌnænɪ
hootnannie
ˈhuːtˌnænɪ
hootnanny
ˈhuːtˌnænɪ
janny
ˈdʒænɪ
kokanee
kəʊˈkænɪ
nanny
ˈnænɪ
shanny
ˈʃænɪ
supernanny
ˈsuːpəˌnænɪ
trannie
ˈtrænɪ
tranny
ˈtrænɪ
uncanny
ʌnˈkænɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOOTENANNY

hoosgow
hoosh
Hoosier
hoot
hoot owl
hootanannie
hootananny
hootch
hootenannie
hootenannies
hooter
hootnannie
hootnannies
hootnanny
hoots
hooty
hooven
Hoover
Hoover Dam
hoovering

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOOTENANNY

a pretty penny
benny
bonny
bunny
caa canny
ca´canny
flanny
funny
ginny
jenny
johnny
Kenny
penny
scranny
skinny
sonny
spend a penny
sunny
swanny
tyranny

Synonyms and antonyms of hootenanny in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hootenanny» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOOTENANNY

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Translator English - Chinese

hootenanny
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hootenanny
570 millions of speakers

English

hootenanny
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hootenanny
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hootenanny
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Hootenanny
278 millions of speakers

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hootenanny
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hootenanny
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hootenanny
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hootenanny
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hootenanny
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フーテナニー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hootenanny
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hootenanny
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Hootenanny
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hootenanny
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हुटकेन्नी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hootenanny
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hootenanny
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hootenanny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Hootenanny
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Hootenanny
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

hootenanny
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hootenanny
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hootenanny
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Hootenanny
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hootenanny

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOOTENANNY»

The term «hootenanny» is regularly used and occupies the 58.199 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOOTENANNY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hootenanny

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOOTENANNY»

Discover the use of hootenanny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hootenanny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hootenanny!: A Festive Counting Book
In this counting book, a set of owls work their way to the top of the Old Oak Tree for a party on Saturday night.
Kimberly Ainsworth, 2011
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Folk Music: The Basics
But Hootenanny also had serious problems. Program heads refused to allow Pete Seeger or the Weavers to appear, claiming their lack of popularity, although it was clear that their past leftwing politics was the real issue. Immediately a boycott ...
Ronald D. Cohen, 2006
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No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
The Hootenanny Graze. When Mike Porco started his Monday night hootenanny, he had no idea that by 1963 it would become a household word. The hootenanny craze sprang from a TV series on ABC. Dylan never appeared on it, yet the ...
Robert Shelton, Elizabeth Thomson, Patrick Humphries, 2011
4
Hootenanny Night
The music at Jed Riley's barn on Hootenanny Night is so captivating that the farm animals outside join in on the square dancing.
Constance Andrea Keremes, 1992
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How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger
Some thought the show's title a bad omen; since folk music had become popular, the word “hootenanny” had been tarnished. The editors of lVebster's Third New International Dictionary included hootenanny: “a gathering at which folk singers ...
David King Dunaway, 2009
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Folk Music: The Basics
Gene Chandler's Soul Hootenanny, and Soul Meeting Saturday Night Hootenanny Style (with blues performers Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, and Memphis Slim on the Vee-Jay label). Hollywood had a difficult time with folk music, with only ...
Ronald Cohen, 2012
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Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, ...
The sole 1964 issue of Hootcnanny Songs and Stan, as its name implied, printed a medley of songs, profiles of pop performers, plugs for ABC's Hootenanny and MGM's folk musical Hootenanny Hoot, along with an illustrated guide to the ...
Ronald D. Cohen, 2002
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Woody Guthrie, American Radical
65 Yet if anything captured the extent of the mass-market appropriation of harmless, politically anodyne “folk music,” it was that same word, hootenanny, that in 1963–64 was used by the ABC network as the title of their popular variety show, ...
Will Kaufman, 2011
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Billboard
Right now a package booked Willard Alexander called 'American Hootenanny Festival," and without a really big name in the cast, has been ng to capacity audiences in a one-nighter tour that started on July 17. Show, which is :d by Fred Hertz, ...
10
Billboard
Dallas. Says. Folk. Here. to. Stay. HOOTENANNY. ALBUM. ON. THE. BILLBOARD. LP. CHART. available on special discount terms. Ask your CRV distributor! Crestview Records are distributed by the Elektra Corp. COUNTRY MUSIC ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOOTENANNY»

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McCain on defense bill, NGA on Hootenanny, Army on battlefield …
Hootenanny crowdsources geospatial data analysis. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has publicly released Hootenanny, ... «FCW.com, Jul 15»
2
Life of a troubadour: Suzy Bogguss gets back to smaller venues …
Sort of a hootenanny of Merle.” “Lucky” follows another success, Bogguss' 2011 “American Folk Songbook,” which she recorded for the Cracker ... «Waco Tribune-Herald, Jul 15»
3
Donna Lynne Champlin, From Broadway to the CW | Cara Joy David
... elements," so a bunch of us Broadway folk are all excited to sing, dance, play instruments and generally have a grand hootenanny of a time. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
Beer Calendar: Hops, Key Lime, Brewery Anniversaries and a Call …
Join Breckenridge Brewery today for its annual Hootenanny. This one is extra-special, because it celebrates both the brewery's move to its ... «Westword, Jul 15»
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Press Briefing: Thursday, July 16, 2015 - The Salamanca Press …
QUAKER RUN — It's Thursday, so that means Sally Marsh will host her weekly hootenanny tonight at Allegany State Park. The event will begin ... «Salamanca Press, Jul 15»
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Happenings | Detroit Lakes Online
Fair Hills Resort hosts the annual summer Hootenanny Tuesdays, beginning with smorgasbord dinner from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Fair Hills dining ... «DL-Online, Jul 15»
7
Animal Collective are reportedly done recording their 10th album …
Featuring the band's first three studio LPS ( Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash , Hootenanny , and Let It Be ) plus the Stink EP, this whole ... «Tiny Mix Tapes, Jul 15»
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Shamir announces first North American tour
Featuring the band's first three studio LPS ( Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash , Hootenanny , and Let It Be ) plus the Stink EP, this whole ... «Tiny Mix Tapes, Jul 15»
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Rhino Records to release box set of The Replacements' Twin/Tone …
Featuring the band's first three studio LPS ( Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash , Hootenanny , and Let It Be ) plus the Stink EP, this whole ... «Tiny Mix Tapes, Jul 15»
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'Bayou Rock' - WOWT.com
Get in the mood for a hootenanny hump day by watching the Delta Saints' video to “Death Letter Jubilee.” Just click or tap HERE to see it. «WOWT, Jul 15»

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